Safely unlocking the huge potential of synthetic nucleic acid in the UK

  • October 2024

  • Izzy Webb

  • UK Bioindustry Association

Izzy Webb is the Deputy Director for Technology Strategy and Security in the UK Department for Science, Innovation and Technology’s (DSIT) Engineering Biology Team. In this blog post, she explains why the UK has published voluntary guidance to promote synthetic nucleic acid screening and who the guidance is intended for.